The film is set in the narrowest sliver of historical time, the immediately pre-youthquake Britain of 1962, when, as Ian McEwan writes in the novella upon which the movie is based, «to be young was a social encumbrance... a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.» (vanityfair.com)
«This was still the era — it would end later in that famous decade — when to be young was a social encumbrance, a mark of irrelevance, a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.» (csmonitor.com)
A genomic study of baldness identified more than 200 genetic regions involved in this common but potentially embarrassing condition. (sciencedaily.com)